COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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____ is an example of supercomputer.
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Tianhe-2
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CRAY1
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IBM-882
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research . Announced in 1975, the first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976. Eventually, 80 Cray-1s were sold, making it one of the most successful supercomputers in history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cray-1 clock speed was 12.5 ns (80 Mhz), and almost all the logic was implemented using one type of ECL NAND gate. Instructions were 16 or 32 bits wide, operating on 24-bit addresses and 64-bit integer and floating point numbers.
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